Re: DOM and Xptrs

• From: Dave Carlson <dcarlson@ontogenics.com>
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:04:06 -0600
• To: www-dom@w3.org
• Message-Id: <2.2.32.19980807000406.0104e02c@terminal.ontogenics.com>

At 10:32 AM 8/6/98 -0700, Ted Bashor wrote:
>I was wondering if someone could comment on the relationship of the
>current DOM API and the XPointer spec.
>
>I was sort of expecting that the DOM, in particular its ECMA script
>bindings, would include accessor methods like 
>an_element.child(2, "foo"), etc.
>

Although it's not part of the current level of DOM standard draft, look at
the XPointer implementation in IBM's XML for Java.  There is enough usable
API there to whet your appetit.

-- Dave

Received on Thursday, 6 August 1998 20:03:03 UTC